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Follow Your Food Passion And Consider A Culinary Career

2011/11/07 By Moomettes (Admin) 2 Comments

culinary students making tasty chocolates

A question for people unsure about their career prospects: do you love food? I mean, really love food. Do you consider yourself a capable chef at home or an adventurous eater in your food community? Do your friends refer to your as the go-to person for restaurant recommendations or do they look to you for tasty recipes? If so, you may be a perfect fit for the culinary life.

Filed Under: Dining, Entertaining, Family, Newsworthy, Pot Luck, Recreation, restaurant, Travel Tagged With: 30 Minute Dinners, Cooking, culinary arts, culinary career, Culinary Institute, culinary schools, education, food, food blog, Food Network, foodie, hospitality management, Hyde Park, Johnson & Wales University, Martha Stewart, New England Culinary Institute, New Haven, New York, Paula Deen, Rachel Ray, recipe blog, Rhode Island, top cooking schools, travel, Vermont, wine

Best Connecticut Farm Stands Markets – Autumn Roasted Apple and Pumpkin Soup Recipe

2011/09/14 By Moomettes (Admin) 9 Comments

Connecticut has some of the best local farmers markets offering fresh-pressed cider along with pick-your-own apples and pumpkins local food produce.

Filed Under: Dining, Entertaining, Family, Featured, Fruit, Recipes, Shopping, Soups and Stews, Travel Tagged With: Adrienne's Restaurant, Apple Pumpkin Soup, apples, Autumn, bakery, Christmas trees, Connecticut, Connecticut Grown, Draghi Farms, farm stands, farmer's market, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Ferry, hayride, local food produce, locally grown produce, New Milford, Portland, QP Farm Market, roadside stand, Rocky Hill Ferry, Rose's Berry Farm, Scott's Orchard, South Glastonbury

How to Predict Hurricane Weather With a Shark Oil Bermuda Glass Barometer

2011/08/26 By Moomettes (Admin) 4 Comments

This weekend I’ll be using my own trusty information for hurricanes to track Hurricane Irene up the East Coast. On one of my last trips to Bermuda, I became fascinated when learning the Bermuda tradition of reading a shark-oil barometer to predict hurricanes.

Filed Under: Gifts, House and Home, Newsworthy, Recreation, Shopping, Travel Tagged With: Atlantic tropical storms, barometers, Bermuda, Bermuda traditions, Dockyard, fishermen, gifts, glass barometer, how to predict hurricane weather, Hurricane Fabian, Hurricane Irene, hurricane weather, King's Wharf, old wive's tales, shark oil

CBS Local Connecticut Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011 Lifestyle Finalist

2011/08/18 By Moomettes (Admin) 3 Comments

I’m so excited to let you know that that I have been honored by having both of my blogs, Frugal New England Kitchen and Moomettes Magnificents nominated on CBS Connecticut’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011 as Finalists in the Lifestyle category! You can help me with this coveted award and distinction by Voting.